April 1, 2003, Paris, France - Matrox Imaging is pleased to announce the Matrox Morphis, a new family of boards for video capture from multiple inputs and real-time JPEG2000 compression. "The Matrox Morphis uses an extremely versatile design, which permits the user to maximize the number of inputs with a cost-effective solution." explains Fabio Perelli, Product Manager for Frame Grabbers and Stand-alone Systems.

Featuring a dual decoder design, the Matrox Morphis supports ultra-fast channel switching between multiple video inputs that make it ideal for video surveillance applications. Moreover, the on-board JPEG2000 compression/decompression functionality facilitates real-time image archiving and transmission for any type of application, including video surveillance and medical imaging.

The Matrox Morphis captures from NTSC, PAL, RS-170, and CCIR video sources, and supports simultaneous acquisition of two live video streams. The Matrox Morphis's scalable design permits users to connect and switch between a maximum of 16 CVBS, 8 Y/C, or a combination of inputs. Other standard features include 16 TTL auxiliary I/Os, an RS-485 serial interface, as well as a watchdog timer for automatically recovering from application or system failure, and hardware facilities for implementing custom software-based motion detection.

Software support is available for Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Windows® XP, and consists of the field-proven, hardware-independent Matrox Imaging Library (MIL)/ActiveMIL or MIL-Lite/ActiveMIL-Lite development toolkits for creating custom applications.

The Matrox Morphis will be available at the end of Q2 2003.

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